The I-V characteristics of the butadienimine-based optical molecular switch: An ab initio study

Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1763-1768

  Xia, Cai Juan ^a   Liu, De Sheng ^b,c   Fang, Chang Feng ^b   Zhao, Peng ^b  

^a XI'AN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JINING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Electronic transport; Molecular switch; Nonequilibrium Green's function

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO STUDY; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HOMO-LUMO GAPS; IV CHARACTERISTICS; MOLECULAR DEVICE; MOLECULAR SWITCHES; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION FORMALISM; OPTICAL MOLECULAR SWITCHES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SWITCHING PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL RESULT;

CHEMICAL BONDS; DNA SEQUENCES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 77349084152     PISSN: 13869477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2010.01.044     Document Type: Article

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